From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Mon Aug 07 21:50:47 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32669 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2000 04:50:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Aug 2000 04:50:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnd.internet-bg.net) (212.124.64.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 8 Aug 2000 04:50:45 -0000 Received: from math.bas.bg (ppp59.internet-bg.net [212.124.66.59]) by lnd.internet-bg.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA07941 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:00:23 +0300 Message-ID: <398F1AE8.7BB0EF45@math.bas.bg> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 23:24:09 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Questions References: <200008071759.UAA19148@banmatpc.math.bas.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Taral wrote: > On 7 Aug, Logical Language Group wrote: > > At 11:02 AM 08/07/2000 -0500, Taral wrote: > > > Question 1: How does one translate "how old are you?" > > > into lojban? There is no pure age relation in the gismu. > > > Probably several ways. One is: > > > > le do nunjmive cu nanca xo This can just as well mean `How many years are you going to live?'. Is pragmatics enough to show that we are only referring to the part of the {nunjmive} that has elapsed already? > > xo selna'a do Or {do xo nanca}? (Probably the same problem as above though.) > > xo ni do tolcitno This looks rather like a calque of the English. I note that {nanla}, {nixli} and {verba} have a slot `of age x2', so {do ma verba} might work under appropriate circumstances. --Ivan